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OPINION

Your 2 Cents’ Worth: Friday, Oct. 30

Does everyone feel as I do? A weekend without the Green Bay Packers playing is similar to a weekend with no electricity, 14 inches of snow, and you’re broke with nothing in the refrigerator. ... Just sayin’

— Pop from Berwick

With the holidays coming up, remember: You never discipline someone else’s child. Talk to the parent, but it is completely out of line to scold or tell someone else’s child how to behave.

— A WDM woman

For corporations, a small percentage tax on their gross receipts should yield as much as the government now gets from them in income tax. This tax plan would be easy to administer, hard to evade, and very simple to understand. And there would be no need for a tax code longer than an encyclopedia.

— Practical reformer in WDM

I’m frustrated by parents showering their young adult kids with expensive cellphones, vehicles and money. The formula for getting what you want is work and save. If it isn’t enough, then get an education, get a better job, work and save. “Ask someone for the money” isn’t anywhere in the equation!

— Mason City parent

It is amazing how many people will choose their presidential candidate because a certain movie star, athlete or entertainer endorses a particular candidate. Some celebrities are paid to do ads. That is not the way to make an intelligent decision about who our next president will be.

— Think about what is best for your country

Please stop calling Social Security “welfare.” SS is funded by individuals and employers through payroll taxes. The U.S. government has no interest in the fund except when they raid it for other expenses other than what it was intended. Tell me who’s the “welfare” recipient now?

— Social Security recipient 50201

So 2015 is the hottest year ever recorded. And guess who is telling us? Why, the same people who preach global warming. Unbelievable.

— Reader in North Iowa

Bad politicians and bad entertainers share the same failing: Neither knows when to get off stage.